Zapp - Zapp

Label:

Warner Bros. Records

Catalog#:

BSK 3463

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album

Country:

Released:

1980

Genre:

Funk / Soul

Style:

Funk, Disco

Tracklist

A1	More Bounce To The Ounce	9:25
A2	Freedom	3:48
A3	Brand New PPlayer	5:51
B1	Funky Bounce	6:46
B2	Be Alright	7:52
B3	Coming Home	6:34

Credits

Bass, Vocals - Zapp Troutman
Congas, Percussion - Larry Troutman
Drums, Percussion - Lester Troutman
Engineer - Jim Vitti , Mike Iacopelli
Engineer, Mixed By - Greg Ward
Guitar - Bootsy Collins
Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Effects [Talking Box], Harmonica - Roger Troutman
Keyboards, Vocals - Greg Jackson (2)
Producer - Bootsy Collins , Roger Troutman
Saxophone - Carl Cowen
Vocals - Bobby Glover

Notes

Recorded at United Sound Systems, Detroit, Michigan.
Mastered at Allen Zentz Mastering, Los Angeles, California.

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Rated 5/5

Review by steady-j Oct 22, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)

Zapp deserve recognition as one of the great pioneers in bringing electronic production into funk music, not to mention for simply being one of the funkiest acts around.

This, their first album under the name (after a few obscure outings as the Human Body), brought together their jamming experience and undoubted talents with some production techniques learned and adapted from Bootsy Collins (who had attempted to sign them)

Every track is richly layered and full of funk, but the masterpiece of course is "More Bounce To The Ounce", a seemingly never-ending sinous groove with those awesome vocodered intonations. The groove here has been purloined dozens of times, by EPMD, the Jedi Knights (aka Global Communication), and I believe Snoop Dogg, among others.